Articles

Toronto, Oct. 30, 1895.

I Have been asked to chronicle for the Journal an experience of the power of Truth. My business has to do with iron furnaces, commonly known as blast furnaces, in which iron ore is smelted and purified.

One day this week our young daughter came home from her music lesson with a metronome. (For the benefit of some who may be as ignorant as I was, let me say the metronome is a small machine for indicating the correct time and speed at which a musical composition should be played.

Since becoming a student of Christian Science it has been my observation, with few exceptions, that among the most liberal, interested and rational people with whom I converse or have correspondence upon the subject, outside of Science, are members of the medical fraternity; especially those whose minds have been broadened and matured by years of experience in their profession. The exceptions, however, have been radically reversed when I have happened to come in contact with an ecclesiastic.

The question is often asked, why do not the thinkers of the age who seem to be so earnestly seeking higher things, the writers, the preachers, the natural scientists, who in so many ways seem to prophesy of Christian Science, and almost point to it with the finger of an unconscious John the Baptist, perceive and follow this demonstrable Truth? Now all questions are answered by Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Mrs. Eddy's other works.

Alexander Wells , an old citizen of our neighboring town of Wellsville, Ohio, has in his possession a copy of an interesting and novel document issued by the school board of the town of Lancaster, this State, in 1828. The question of steam railroads was then in its incipient stages of agitation, and a club of young men had been formed for the purpose of discussing the points at issue, and desired the use of the schoolhouse for purposes of debate.

All that has real existence emanates from the One Spirit, which is Principle, source or origin of existence. Man's real individuality is a reflection of Spirit, and is spiritual and perfect now, and his only real existence.

During the past year a faithful and energetic worker in and for Truth has placed copies of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures in the following libraries:— Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.

What magic in the word! All the magnificence of the dim and storied past, all the great promises of futurity, hold not the simple grandeur of that holy word. It echoes through all time, past, present, and future, and drifts out into eternity, as the mightiest word in man's vocabulary,—the synonym of purity, goodness, faith, trust, loving kindness, noble self-sacrifice, boundless unselfishness, tenderness, forbearance, meekness, virtue.

Perhaps the principal reason why false teaching has allured those honestly seeking Truth, is the cleverness of the counterfeit. From an external point of view and to those outside Christian Science the work of one falsely taught, and of the Scientist in the beginning appears to be the same— but how widely different the aims.